Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 páginas |
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... writer and recorded his foreign experiences in three books , West Barbary , 1671 ; The Present State of the Jews ( more ... writing Latin verse , soon brought him to promi- nence , and in 1698 he was elected to a fellowship which he held ...
... writer and recorded his foreign experiences in three books , West Barbary , 1671 ; The Present State of the Jews ( more ... writing Latin verse , soon brought him to promi- nence , and in 1698 he was elected to a fellowship which he held ...
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... writers and critics . In general , they confirmed him in his admiration for the Classics . 66 66 " 1 Leaving Paris for Marseilles he passed through Orange where he notices " Marius's triumphal arch and ye Remains of a Roman Amphitheatre ...
... writers and critics . In general , they confirmed him in his admiration for the Classics . 66 66 " 1 Leaving Paris for Marseilles he passed through Orange where he notices " Marius's triumphal arch and ye Remains of a Roman Amphitheatre ...
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... writers have enjoyed . In 1707 he brought out an opera , Rosamond , which failed to please the town , but in 1713 he retrieved himself by his Cato which met with unusual success . In this same year he pub- lished the Guardian , and in ...
... writers have enjoyed . In 1707 he brought out an opera , Rosamond , which failed to please the town , but in 1713 he retrieved himself by his Cato which met with unusual success . In this same year he pub- lished the Guardian , and in ...
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... Humourists , Pope . ( 2 ) Journal to Stella , Oct. 12 , 1710 . ( 3 ) Memoirs of Europe towards the close of the Eighth Century , 1710 , page THE WRITINGS OF ADDISON . As a writer , Addison's 287 . X LIFE OF ADDISON . PAGE.
... Humourists , Pope . ( 2 ) Journal to Stella , Oct. 12 , 1710 . ( 3 ) Memoirs of Europe towards the close of the Eighth Century , 1710 , page THE WRITINGS OF ADDISON . As a writer , Addison's 287 . X LIFE OF ADDISON . PAGE.
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Joseph Addison Edward Bliss Reed. THE WRITINGS OF ADDISON . As a writer , Addison's career was determined by two ruling passions , to enlarge upon the popu- lar phrase of his day . These were his whole - souled admiration for Greek and ...
Joseph Addison Edward Bliss Reed. THE WRITINGS OF ADDISON . As a writer , Addison's career was determined by two ruling passions , to enlarge upon the popu- lar phrase of his day . These were his whole - souled admiration for Greek and ...
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Página 206 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 81 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Página 170 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 331 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Página 211 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 185 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 258 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 156 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Página xviii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 251 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.